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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
13
+13 posted in 30 days
Momentum
50/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Manu SharmaCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Labelbox
Brian RiegerCo-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Labelbox
Dan RasmusonCo-Founder, Labelbox
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Overview

Alignerr is an American expert marketplace operated by the data platform company Labelbox that pays specialists to train and evaluate frontier artificial intelligence models. Contributors work remotely on tasks such as writing reference answers, ranking model outputs, reviewing code, checking mathematical proofs and probing systems for failure, across dozens of languages and professional domains. The platform screens applicants for genuine subject expertise before assigning work, and supplies the resulting reinforcement learning and evaluation data to laboratories building large language models.

News

News aitrainer.work 7 months ago
6 Active Projects on Alignerr Right Now March 2026
Alignerr runs named projects: Prism, Code Human, Rainforest, and more. What each project involves, who qualifies, and how to apply directly.
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News Pulse 2.0 8 months ago
Labelbox Acquires Agentic Sales Automation Startup Upcraft To Scale Alignerr Expert Network
Labelbox, a data factory used by AI labs and enterprises, has acquired Upcraft, an AI-powered sales automation startup, to accelerate how Labelbox recruits and engages domain experts for frontier AI development.
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News alignerr 1 year ago
Alignerr Powered by Labelbox
Earn money while training AI models from home on your own time
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News Business Insider 1 year ago
Meta contractors say they read intimate chats with its AI - and see data that identifies users
Meta, like many tech companies, uses gig workers to review real user chats with its AI chatbot to improve the system.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Alignerr over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
31
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python31%
SQL15%
TypeScript15%
JavaScript15%
Go8%
Frameworks & libraries
Hadoop15%
PyTorch15%
Scikit-learn15%
TensorFlow15%
Angular8%
Next.js8%
Nuxt.js8%
React.js8%
Cloud & platforms
SIEM23%
Spark23%
AWS15%
Azure15%
GCP15%
Apache Kafka8%
Qualys Cloud Platform8%
Developer tools
Git8%
Pulumi8%
Terraform8%
AI & ML
LLM15%
Practices & domains
Edge AI77%
Red Teaming38%
Machine Learning23%
CI/CD23%
NLP8%
Prompt Engineering8%
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Products

Model Evaluation
The evaluation service has experts grade model output against rubrics and probe systems for failure modes. Results feed both benchmark reporting and targeted retraining.
alignerr.com
RLHF Services
Alignerr supplies reinforcement learning from human feedback data, including preference rankings and written demonstrations. Frontier laboratories use it to align model behaviour with expert judgement.
alignerr.com
Expert Vetting
The vetting pipeline screens applicants through domain assessments and identity checks before any paid work. It exists to keep the resulting training data at genuine professional quality.
alignerr.com
Marketplace
The Alignerr marketplace matches vetted subject-matter experts with paid AI training projects. Contributors choose assignments in their field and work remotely on a flexible schedule.
alignerr.com

People

Manu Sharma
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Labelbox
Manu Sharma co-founded Labelbox, the company that operates Alignerr, and leads it as chief executive. He previously worked on aerial imaging and analytics products at Planet Labs.
Brian Rieger
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Labelbox
Brian Rieger co-founded Labelbox and runs its operations and go-to-market organisation, including the Alignerr expert marketplace. He previously built enterprise products at Planet Labs.
Dan Rasmuson
Co-Founder, Labelbox
Dan Rasmuson co-founded Labelbox and led its early engineering work on annotation tooling. That platform is the technical foundation Alignerr runs on.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
88/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
13
15 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
47% ▲
Data Science
20% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▲
Frontend
7% ▲
Analytics
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Security (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Prompt Engineering to stack Oct 2026
Added Qualys Cloud Platform to stack Oct 2026
Added EPSS to stack Oct 2026
Added CVSS to stack Oct 2026
Added CVE to stack Oct 2026
New location: Bengaluru Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack Sep 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack Sep 2026
Added Cyber Kill Chain to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Jobs

≈ $11k – $29k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Delhi
Red Teaming
Cybersecurity
Qualys Cloud Platform
CVE
CVSS
EPSS
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Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • Mumbai
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Red Teaming
Edge AI
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
Threat Modeling
Apply
Remote (India) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bengaluru
JavaScript
TypeScript
Edge AI
Frontend
Vue.js
Nuxt.js
Next.js
Angular
React.js
Apply
≈ $18k – $46k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • Mumbai
Python
SQL
Hadoop
Spark
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $11k – $30k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Delhi
Red Teaming
Edge AI
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
Apply
≈ $18k – $39k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • Bengaluru
LLM
Red Teaming
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
MITRE ATT&CK
SOC 2
Cyber Kill Chain
SIEM
Apply
≈ $21k – $43k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • Mumbai
Python
SQL
Hadoop
Spark
Scikit-learn
NLP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $21k – $48k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Edge AI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Apply
≈ $10k – $28k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Delhi
Edge AI
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
SIEM
Apply
≈ $12k – $32k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Delhi
Red Teaming
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
Cyber Kill Chain
Threat Modeling
Apply
≈ $17k – $45k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • Mumbai
Python
Edge AI
Apply
Remote (likely India) • Full-Time • Delhi
Edge AI
Apply